Can Roads and Russian Forests Coexist?

A friend and I took her and her husband out of San Francisco and north Muir Woods yesterday and to the beach where we gawked at redwoods and picked sea glass and shells. It felt great to give these people a break from the seriousness of their campaign back home. This story is ongoing and unfolding: the Moscow road project has only been halted, and an activist from Evgenia’s group, Alexei Dmitriev, is in the hospital this morning after being attacked on his way to work. He’s in better shape than others, including journalists, who’ve suffered brain injuries and even amputations for their troubles. And the Moscow police? They can’t solve any of these cases… They are very impressed with the park system here. We also spoke endlessly about grassroots organizing strategy and they picked my brain on how to build a national grassroots network in Russia, like the one I’ve managed fo...